WAYS OF EXPRESSING PEJORATIVE CONNOTATION IN GERMAN LITERARY TEXTS

Abstract

The article deals with ways of expressing pejorative connotation in the German language in order to identify linguistic and contextually conditioned deterioration of meaning. The relevance and novelty of the research lies in the contextual analysis of the studied units which express the pejorative meaning both explicitly and implicitly / collectively and individually. The choice of this topic is explained by the fact that literary discourse not only combines linguistic and extralinguistic aspects, but also includes various lexical units belonging to different levels. The analyzed material allows the authors to conclude that pejoratives can be used both in one-way and in interpersonal communication when comparing a person with an animal or with an artifact, or when characterizing a communicant by his external and internal features, the deterioration of which is due to the communicative situation and varies in use from colloquial to taboo lexical units.